Local marijuana businesses react to Missouri’s ‘psychoactive’ cannabis ban

SPRINGFIELD, Mo.- On Thursday, Governor Mike Parson introduced a new executive order banning the sale of hemp-infused products with psychoactive cannabis compounds, also known as Delta-8.

While the hemp industry is quickly becoming a billion-dollar industry, Greenlight Marijuana CEO John Mueller says it was never meant to become an intoxicating substance.

“And they’re using the farm bill, which was really designed to help the hemp farmers and also CBD products, which is like a great vitamin for the body, but was never intended to be intoxicating,” Mueller said.

Mueller said he is strongly in favor of Executive Order 24-10.

“I think what the governor did yesterday is protect the consumers of the great state of Missouri. So we are we are thrilled with that and feel like that Missouri’s a safer place because of it,” Mueller said.

The products have to come from an “approved source” to be sold to customers, but the state of Missouri nor the Food and Drug Administration recognize any of those sources.

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(Story by Makayla Strickland, ozarksfirst.com)